Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (official portrait 2011) Bitcoin 'puts a question mark on the fractional banking model we know today.' Sept. 30, 2017 (FEE) -- In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet i...

Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation June 6 10:00 a.m., Council member Robert White will present the Washington, DC, City Council with a ceremonial resolution in...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 13, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation March 15 9:00-10:00 a.m., American Enterprise Institute, " The defense budget and emergency war spending: Does it help mor...

Credit: Rolling Stone Jan. 17, 2017 ( Democracy Now ) -- As a new study by Oxfam finds the world’s eight richest men control as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity, the group says it is conce...

Buried within the $619 billion military budget is a controversial provision that establishes a national anti-propaganda center that critics warn could be dangerous for press freedoms. (Official White...

Arctic Tundra. (Photo: USFWS) "What we know from this study is that warming will result in the loss of stored carbon in a wide variety of ecosystems -- and that has potentially harmful effects in ter...

Goldman Sachs president and COO Gary Cohn at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Photo: Valeriano DiDomenico/World Economic Forum) "It's called a rigged economy and this is how it w...